"Video Game Character Wrestling is a Twitch channel run by a guy named Bazza. He said earlier how when he first ran it like a month ago, he 'was happy he got 50 viewers, maybe he could get 50 the next time too', and it just fucking exploded, with an average of 2000-3000 viewers in recent matches," (Via this Something Awful thread). Video Game Character Wrestling is an improbable live-action machinima spectacle which pits AI controlled versions of major game characters (and some real-ish personalities) against one another in a brawl for it all.

My friends and I used to do this in college, set up AI Create A Wrestler's against each other and then do silly voice overs. It was very fun, I should send this to my old friends.posted by Faux Real at 9:29 PM on December 17, 2012 [1 favorite]

...and yet somehow it still feels more real than actual wrestling.posted by Mokusatsu at 9:17 AM on December 18, 2012

Can't watch this yet since I'm at work, but I'll be very disappointed if this doesn't include a Pee-Wee Herman or Mr. T wrestler. If a "create-a-character" mode doesn't provide the user with options for grey suit + red bowtie + saddle shoes, or mohawk + denim vest + gold chains, it's not much of a game, IMO.posted by Strange Interlude at 12:52 PM on December 18, 2012

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